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  • Moving People To Deliver Services

    The WTO is today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization and international migration. Greater freedom for the "temporary movement of individual service suppliers" is being negotiated under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Conditions in many developed economies - ranging from aging populations to shortages of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Future Jobs

    Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Platforms in East Asia and Pacific

    People in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries have prospered over the last few decades because of the growth in productive jobs. Do industrial robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms threaten that development model?Future Jobs presents evidence that new technologies have thus far boosted employment. Increases in productivity and scale have outweighed the labor-displacing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Greenprint

    A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change

    International cooperation on climate change has floundered. With mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and shifting economic and bargaining power from old CO2 emitters to newwhat Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian call the narrative, adding up, and new world problemsthe wonder is not the current impasse but belief that ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exporting Services: A Developing Country Perspective

    The past two decades have seen exciting changes with developing countries emerging as exporters of services. Technological developments now make it easier to trade services across borders. But other avenues are being exploited: tourists visit not just to sightsee but also to be treated and educated, service providers move abroad under innovative new schemes, and some developing countries defy ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fixing the Foundation

    Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia and Pacific

    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Countries in East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing a learning crisis when the COVID-19 pandemic made things worse. This report examines key factors affecting learning outcomes in the region, including teaching, the use of educational technologies (EdTech), and public spending on education. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fixing the Foundation

    Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia and Pacific

    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Countries in middle-income East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing serious learning deficits prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-related school disruptions have only made things worse. Learning poverty -- defined as the percentage of 10-year-olds who cannot read and understand an age-appropriate text -- is as high as 90 percent in several countries. Several large Southeast Asian ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements

    This Handbook presents detailed data and analysis on the content of the policy areas most frequently covered in DTAs, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency, procedures, and enforcement. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements

    Deep trade agreements (DTAs) cover not just trade but additional policy areas, such as international flows of investment and labor and the protection of intellectual property rights and the environment. Their goal is integration beyond trade or deep integration. These agreements matter for economic development. Their rules influence how countries (and hence, the people and firms that live and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Services Trade and Development

    The Experience of Zambia

    Edited by Aaditya Mattoo, Lucy Payton ...
    Series series Trade and Development
    Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant benefits and diminished faith in liberalization. What is to be done? Move aggressively and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Services Trade And Development : The Experience Of Zambia

    Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant benefits and diminished faith in liberalization. What is to be done? Move aggressively and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • India And The Wto

    This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the WTO Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in the Doha Round negotiations. The individual chapters span the Doha Development Agenda and include: calculations of the economic effects on India and other major trading countries/regions of the Uruguay Round negotiations and the prospective Doha Agenda negotiations; ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Services Trade and Development

    The Experience of Zambia

    Series series Trade and Development
    Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant benefits and diminished faith in liberalization. What is to be done? Move aggressively and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus